 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...bestir ourselves, we may even here discover something. 368. The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern : and there is no subject so obscure,...passion, it doth not give way to vulgar cares and views ; no/ is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life ; active, perhaps, to pursue,... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...bestir ourselves, we may even here discover something. 368. The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern : and there is no subject so obscure,...passion, it doth not give way to vulgar cares and views ; not is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life ; active, perhaps, to pursue,... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1832 - 352 pages
...in its philosophic piety. " Truth," he beau' Slim, or Refections on Tar Water. tifully concludes, " is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly, where it is the chief passion, it does not give way to vulgar cares, nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life;... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...imperfect his belief, to a communion in its philosophical piety. ' Truth,' he beautifully concludes, ' is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly, where it is the chief passion, it does not give way to vulgar cares, nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...imperfect his belief, to a communion in its philosophical piety. ' Truth,' he beautifully concludes, ' is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly, where it is the chief passion, it does not give way to vulgar cares, nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life... | |
 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...imperfect his belief, to a communion in its philosophical piety. ' Truth,' he beautifully concludes, ' is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly, where it is the chief passion, it does nol give way to vulgar cares, nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life... | |
 | William Josiah Irons - 1836 - 238 pages
...the Truth itself. motives ; and that, to adopt the language of a great writer of the last century, " truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few." The majority of men, instead of examining for themselves, generally learn by rote a code of borrowed... | |
 | William Josiah Irons - 1836 - 242 pages
...the Truth itself. motives ; and that, to adopt the language of a great writer of the last century, " truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few." The majority of men, instead of examining for themselves, generally learn by rote a code of borrowed... | |
 | 1855 - 664 pages
...little better than moonshine, and which is only fitted to bring the name of philosophy into contempt. " Truth is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly...cares and views ; nor is it contented with a little ardor in uie early time of life; active, perhaps, to pursue, but not so fit to weigh and revise. He... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 614 pages
...however imperfect his belief, to a communion in its philosophic piety. "Truth," he beautifully concludes, "is the cry of all, but the game of a few. Certainly, where it is the chief passion, it does not give way to vulgar cares, nor is it contented with a little ardour in the early time of life... | |
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... the early time of life ; active, perhaps, to pursue, but not so fit to weigh and revise. He that would make a real progress in knowledge must dedicate his age as well as youth, the later growth as well as first fruits, at the altar of Truth. 
